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Show Female Drug Addicts Some Mercy

A news article that caught my interest recently and was circulated by the Saudi local press but was quickly forgotten, focused on a prostitution network that consisted of female university students and was run by a foreign resident. The network’s leader would...

Listening to Dima

Dima Mohammed Akhwan, an 18 year-old Saudi female, distinguished herself at the Jeddah Economic Forum last week, when she participated in a roundtable discussion entitled “The Generation Gap: What do we owe the future?”, in collaboration with George Blad, the...

Wonderful Slogans

The library of Alexandria hosted a conference recently under the title of ‘the Arab Youth Forum for reform and thinking,’ that was held 8-10 February 2006. The conference dealt with ideology, reform, youth leadership and the like, concerning the future...

Do Not Boycott Danish Products

In front of one the exam halls of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, a young man stopped me with a smile and handed me a piece of paper. On it, clearly emotional words were written calling for the immediate boycott of Danish imports. Later, that same day, a text...